Plant speciation and diversification strongly rely on structural changes in the nuclear genome,
both at the whole ploidy and individual chromosome level. Phylogenetic, comparative …

… of incompatibility factors within species. Polyploid speciation, in which the entire genome
is duplicated, is particularly frequent in plants, perhaps because polyploid plants often exhibit …

… Molecular work during the past two decades has provided an unprecedented insight into the
… of such genomes is a critical piece to the puzzle understanding plant speciation processes. …

… molecular phylogenetic and related literature we propose there is now overwhelming evidence
that plant speciation … We therefore reject the view of palaeobotanists that plant speciation …

… placed on the ecology of speciation in plants. Only recently have evolutionary … plant speciation,
and to make specific predications as to how ecological differences might affect speciation …

… In this review I examine the consequences of speciation for patterns of molecular genetic …
: (i) Does speciation leave a distinctive signature on patterns of molecular genetic variation? If …

… overview of the molecular technologies currently used to study hybrid speciation and how …
We begin with an introduction to hybrid speciation in plants, followed by a review of techniques…

… (c) Rate of molecular evolution in birds and plants The ¢nal example is the use of sister-…
plants (Barraclough et al. 1996). Chase et al. (1993) present a phylogeny of the majority of …

… Analyses of speciation genes – genes that contribute to the … , evolutionary forces and molecular
mechanisms that drive the … ) in plants, compares them with animal speciation genes and …

… current knowledge on this and other aspects of plant speciation research as was made clear
at the recent European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) workshop ‘Mechanisms of …